FDA approves Jazz Pharma's leukemia drug

The Food and Drug Administration on Aug. 3 approved Jazz Pharmaceuticals' acute myeloid leukemia treatment Vyxeos.

Here are three things to know.

  1. Vyxeos is a fixed-combination therapy containing two chemotherapy drugs.

  1. The drug is intended to treat adults with two types of high-risk AML.

  1. In a recent clinical trial, patients taking Vyxeos had a median overall survival of 9.56 months, compared to 5.95 months for those receiving the two chemotherapy drugs separately.

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